Key staff members join CEO McKellar to leave the association
Two more Australian Trucking Association (ATA) personnel have resigned from the association in the same week as CEO Andrew McKellar.
Safety, health and wellbeing director Melissa Weller and member services and corporate partnerships director Dean Seeley are the latest to announce their departures.
Former Yass Valley Council road safety officer Weller leaves after more than four years at the ATA, where she started as safety and skills adviser and moved on to head the association’s safety, health and wellbeing department in 2019.
In that role, she led the TruckSafe safety management system and safety, health and wellbeing education strategy.
She is credited with creating the SafeT360 truck education program.
Similarly, Seeley spent four years at the ATA, having started as partnership and events director in 2017, before becoming the association’s member services and corporate partnerships director this year.
Seeley put in place the Daimler Truck and Bus Future Leaders’ Forum and the Teletrac Navman Driving Change Diversity Program, the association notes.
How Andrew McKellar’s resignation was announced, here
In a communique, chair David Smith notes: “Dean wishes to take on a new role within his successful and growing family business” while Weller “has accepted a key new appointment”
All three “will leave the ATA in the coming weeks” and are thanked “for their contributions to the organisation”.
“It is fair to say the ATA faces an exceptional period of upheaval with a number of key vacancies emerging,” Smith notes.
“I want to reassure you that the necessary steps are in train to address these vacancies, to continue our important projects, and to ensure that we reinforce our strong relationships and engagement with all key sponsors and our corporate partners.”